http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit
At least, someone I admire in a weird sense… that’s like, a qualification for a hero, right? This story’s kinda old so I dunno how many people haven’t read about this guy yet, but basically this dude just decided that he wanted to live a life completely devoid of human interaction, and indeed he did for almost 28 years. I think he was around 20 when he just walked into an isolated park in Vermont and lived off petty burglaries around the nearby cabins, stealing only things that he needed to survive on, and apparently a lot of books too, he seems pretty well-reas. The thing I found the most fascinating about this whole thing is he doesn’t really seem to have any solid reasoning for why he decided to become a hermit, he doesn’t seem to hold any deep-seated grudge against people, nor did he have a history of being picked on and bullied as a kid (at least, from what we know), he just genuinely wanted to be left alone.
I’ve always thought that’d be the greatest way to live. Just alone in nature, at peace with everything and not bothered by the petty drama and day-to-day life of other people.
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I admire these kind of people. Watch the film “Into The Wild”. It’s based off the novel. Great film, though, haven’t read the book yet.
I looked up the synopsis on IMDB, looks pretty cool. I’m not much into movies but if it’s about the same subject I’m sold. I watched some Vice documentary not too long ago about this guy and his wife who live in a wildlife reserve up in northern Alaska (I think in the Arctic Circle) where the nearest town is like 100 miles away. I envy someone that can live that far away from civilization and be pretty much entirely self-sufficient. Not in a doomsday hoarder survivalist way, but just being that in touch with nature and the balances of Earth and all that is really respectable considering how the vast majority of people live now.